Double Chicken Please
The Cold Pizza is tequila, cheese, burnt toast, tomato, basil, honey and egg white in a glass, and it is why the queue runs down Allen Street.
Why go
GN Chan and Faye Chen ran this as a touring pop-up before it took the Lower East Side address, and they built two bars inside it. At the front is Free Range, which 50 Best describes as a modernist take on the locale's soda tap tradition,
pouring kegged seasonal cocktails and beers with no ceremony. Through the partition is The Coop, where the drinks copy dishes: the bar's own line is that culinary techniques are used to deconstruct and rebuild flavors.
2 That is the room the rankings are about.
The menu is the thing they win prizes for. The Spirited Awards, which the drinks trade votes on itself, gave Double Chicken Please World's Best Cocktail Menu in 2023, and made it one of four finalists for Best U.S. Cocktail Bar in 2023 and again in 2024 without giving it that one.4 The James Beard Foundation ran it as an Outstanding Bar semifinalist in 20266, and Scotch Lodge in Portland took the award.7
Order this / avoid
- Order: the Cold Pizza. Jihan Lee:
It's tequila-based, but they add cheese, burnt toast, tomato, basil, honey, egg white—it sounds insane, but it totally works.
3 It arrives with an edible slice on top. If you would rather start easier, 50 Best sends first-timers to the Japanese Cold Noodle,rum, pineapple, cucumber, coconut, lime, sesame,
or the Key Lime Pie. Eat the Hot Honey Chicken Sandwich.1 - Avoid: assuming you can walk into The Coop. Book ahead, or drink at Free Range while you wait.
What locals & experts say
- Jihan Lee (Nami Nori), 2025-12:
One cocktail I'll never forget is called Cold Pizza.
His booking note is the practical half:it's a bit hard to get a reservation, so it's better to book in advance.
3 - The World's 50 Best Bars: No. 41, and the write-up calls it
a trailblazer of its culinary cocktail trend,
noting it debuted at No. 6 in 2022 and took the top spot in North America in 2023.1 - North America's 50 Best Bars 2026, at No. 35, makes the case that the trick has not curdled: the drinks arrive
tasting uncannily like dishes
and stop short of the gimmick.5 - Bryan Kim, The Infatuation's editorial lead in New York, in November 2023:
A Cold Pizza cocktail might not sound very sexy, but in the back room at Double Chicken Please, the tomato-forward drink might be the beginning of a very sexy evening.
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Good to know
- Timing: evening and late.
- Booking: recommended for The Coop. Free Range at the front is the informal room.
- One premises: the city's register carries a single permit at 115 Allen Street covering both rooms, last inspected in July 2026.
Jeff's take (his words)
- Note: "Iconic, And top cocktail bar"
Verdict
must-visit — A cocktail that rebuilds cold pizza out of tequila, cheese, burnt toast and egg white, and does it well enough to sit at No. 41 on The World's 50 Best Bars after debuting at No. 6 and topping the North America list in 2023. GN Chan and Faye Chen run two rooms out of one address, so you can drink kegged seasonal cocktails at the front without a booking or take the tasting-style list in the back with one. Jeff had already starred it.